The enemies poem
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Elizabeth jennings | show 🗑
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Structure | show 🗑
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show | about an event that happened in the city on one night and its effects the next morning and thereafter
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show | strangers came and invaded the city for no specific reason. No external devastations had taken place but there were great internal damages, in the minds of the people. Trust, role of women, invasion of others to way of life
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Context | show 🗑
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Fear | show 🗑
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show | Nameless city bordered by river, main action happening in one night and day. Some diction is allegorical- archaic phrase ‘strangte tongue’ (foriegn langauge). Haunted, band, land are drawn from stories/ fables. Keeps a distance, semi-aware of the paranoia
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Tone- first stanza | show 🗑
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Gender opposition- ‘us vs them’ | show 🗑
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Inaction | show 🗑
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show | Enjabment used for uncertainity- when is line going to end. Apparent at end of line one’ and…’ what???Before eyes can read the next line our imagination fills the gap- nefarious possibilities. Second verse ‘ all the town is filled…’same thing here.
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show | Use of sibilance. Whispery. Twists atmosphere into something sinister. Women warm welcome- sounds turns to rich w sounds- ‘ women were awake with’. However, suspicion brings sibilance ‘ not asking what strange’ - manipulation, secrecy, distrust.
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show | ‘Close up the candid looks’, aggressive, first associated with mysterious commers- ‘they came across’, transferred to citizens- cold, clinical, unfeeling,
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Rthymn and rhyme | show 🗑
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the enemies | show 🗑
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